Connecting the dots: What is Instructional Design?

Recently, I was doing a little professional development and came across an online book, Connecting the Dots: Improving Student Outcomes and Experiences with Exceptional Instructional Design, by Whitney Kilgore, PhD., and Diane Weaver. The book is a collection of stories and lived experiences related to instructional design that also provides some cohesion and direction around […]

A cross-team collaboration: Spelling out the patterns in the MD curriculum

Spurred by questions from students, Sarah Kenney with the Student Learning Center came to us with a great opportunity to help students better understand our curriculum. Over the summer, members of the Student Learning Center, Curriculum, Assessment, Instructional Design, and Digital Publishing teams came together to define the overarching patterns in our curriculum—what the students […]

What’s new?

Summer is rarely a period of rest for our team, and this year was no different! We rolled out a new layout for the Medicine Digital Learning landing page, which highlights information about our curriculum, as well as new materials for some of the components that are part of our curriculum. Read on for a […]